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Israel gears up for a new wave of urban renewal agreements with an approved budget of NIS 120 million, extending to 7 more local authorities.

  Fitch Ratings maintained Israel's "A+" sovereign credit rating on Tuesday and removed the country from "rating watch negative" despite concerns over Israel's war against the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas in Gaza. At the outset of the conflict in October, Fitch placed Israel's sovereign debt rating on negative watch and warned a major escalation of […]

The strike on the aid convoy, which travelled along a route approved by the Israeli army, killed seven workers of the World Central Kitchen – but the target, an armed man thought to be a terrorist, never left the warehouse with the cars

  The Israeli military said on Tuesday that an independent, professional expert body would investigate the deaths of seven people working for the World Central Kitchen in Gaza, which the NGO said was the result of an Israeli air strike. Shortly afterward, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday lamented the killing in an alleged Israeli […]

  Nothing seemed out of the ordinary this week in Stamford Hill, an ultra-Orthodox neighborhood in north London. Kosher stores played Purim songs, costumes were on sale just as they are every year, mothers pushed strollers just like in Bnei Brak, and boys wearing wigs made their way to the Talmud Torah. But underneath the […]

Fitch projected a central government budget deficit of 3.9% for Israel in 2025.

Buoyed by their success in states such as Michigan and Minnesota, anti-war activists are hoping Tuesday to secure the number of votes by which Joe Biden beat Donald Trump in 2020, to send a message to the president ahead of November's election

Regev spoke along with other freed hostages and relatives of hostages at a Knesset committee. Freed hostage Sharon Cunio-Alony, who's husband is still held in Gaza by Hamas, urged lawmakers not to forget the men: 'They are also being abused'

The police officer, accused of negligent homicide, fired towards the ground, with a ricochet hitting 18-year-old Solomon Teka and killing him. Due to threats against his life since the incident, heavy security is expected during the reading of the verdict

'I personally am not prepared to do something that is against my belief of what is for the good of the country,' said Eyal Gabai, who served as the Prime Minister's Office director in 2009-2011 regarding case 1000, in which Netanyahu is accused of fraud and breach of trust

The Kohelet Policy Forum, the think tank that has come into public limelight because of the proposed judicial reforms in 2023, is scaling back a significant portion of its ongoing expenses, parting ways with dozens of staff members, and cutting support for other civil society organizations, Israel Hayom has learned.  According to the reporting, core […]

  Suspected Israeli warplanes bombed Iran's embassy in Syria on Monday in a strike that Iran said killed seven of its military advisors, including three senior commanders, marking a major escalation in Israel's war with its regional adversaries. Follow Israel Hayom on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram Reuters reporters at the site in the Mezzeh district […]

  An alleged Israeli airstrike killed four international aid workers with the World Central Kitchen charity and their Palestinian driver late Monday, hours after the group brought in a new shipload of food to northern Gaza. Footage showed the bodies of the five dead at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the central Gaza town of Deir […]

UAE to pause humanitarian efforts to Gaza via maritime corridor after Israeli aid attack on WCK staff ■ IDF promises independent and thorough investigation on 'tragic' aid worker deaths; U.S. demands 'swift' probe ■ Thousands protest against government in Jerusalem ■ Iran's supreme leader vows revenge on Israel for Damascus strike ■ WHO says Al-Shifa Hospital not functional 'in any shape or form' ■ New cease-fire, hostage release proposal drafted in Cairo, presented to Hamas, Mossad says

Three foreigners reportedly among the fatalities; WCK: 'Humanitarian aid workers and civilians should never be a target'

After a winter of high prices because of the war, the cost of tickets is starting to come down with the return of foreign airlines and the reopening in June of Ben-Gurion International Airport's low-cost terminal

Members of Israeli delegation to talks will remain in Cairo, but Mossad chief David Barnea will not join them

Citing 'security issues and high-level threats' against Israel's unofficial First Lady, state has leased a vacant apartment adjacent to the prime minister's official Jerusalem residence